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Anubis

also Anpu

Anubis, translit. jnpw, supervised the embalming as Lord-of-the-Booth (i.e. the booth where embalming was performed), took the dead as the "conductor of souls" to be weighed before the judge of the infernal regions and guarded the Cities of the Dead.

The Speech of Anpu:

Anubis the dweller in the mummy chamber, Governor of the Divine House, layeth his hands upon the lord of life, the scribe, the draughtsman of Ptah, Nebseni, the lord of fealty, begotten of the scribe and mason Thena, born of the lady of the house Mut-rest, whose word is truth, and devoting himself to him as his guardian, saith:-
Homage to thee, thou happy one, lord! Thou seest the Utchat. Ptah-Seker
hath bound thee up. Anpu hath exalted thee. Shu hath raised thee up, O
Beautiful Face, thou governor of eternity. Thou hast thine eye, O scribe
Nebseni, lord of fealty, and it is beautiful. Thy right eye is like the
Sektet Boat, thy left eye is like the Atet Boat. Thine eyebrows are fair
to see in the presence of the Company of the Gods. Thy brow is under the
protection of Anpu, and thy head and face, O beautiful one, are before
the holy Hawk. Thy fingers have been stablished by thy scribe's craft in
the presence of the Lord of Khemenu, Thoth, who hath bestowed upon thee
the knowledge of the speech of the holy books. Thy beard is beautiful in
the sight of Ptah-Seker, and thou, O scribe Nebseni, thou lord of
fealty, art beautiful before the Great Company of the Gods. The Great
God looketh upon thee, and he leadeth thee along the path of happiness.
Sepulchral meals are bestowed upon thee, and he overthroweth for thee
thine enemies, setting them under thy feet in the presence of the Great
Company of the Gods who dwell in the House of the Great Aged One which
is in Anu.

From the Papyrus of Nebseni, Brit. Mus. No. 9900, Sheet 14, ll. 16ff.

He was represented as a canine, perhaps an Egyptian jackal, [7] a kind of wild dog or perhaps a guard dog. Therianthropically he was depicted with a canine head and tail. As the main subordinate of Osiris he was in charge of order in the Beyond:

Who are the gods who are in the train of Horus?

"[They are] Kesta, Hapi, Taumutef, and Qebhsenuf. "Homage to you, O ye lords of right and truth, ye sovereign princes (Tchatcha) who [stand] round about Osiris, who do away utterly sins and offences, and who are in the following of the goddess Hetepsekhus, grant ye that I may come unto you. Destroy ye all the faults which are within me, even as ye did for the Seven Spirits who are among the followers of their lord Sepa. Anpu (Anubis) appointed to them their places on the day [when he said unto them], "Come ye hither."
.......
As concerning the Seven Spirits who are Kesta, Hapi, Tuamutef, Qebhsenuf, Maa-atef, Kheribeqef and Heru-khenti-en-ariti, these did Anubis appoint to be protectors of the dead body of Osiris.
Others, however, say that he set them round about the holy place of Osiris.

From the Papyrus of Ani

But Anubis was more than a benevolent usher of the dead

Deliver thou the scribe Nebseni, whose word is truth, from the Watchers, who carry murderous knives, who possess cruel fingers, and who would slay those who are in the following of Osiris.
May these Watchers never gain the mastery over me, and may I never fall under their knives!

Who are these Watchers?

They are Anubis and Horus, [the latter being] in the form of Horus the sightless.

From the Papyrus of Nebseni, Brit. Mus. No. 9900, Sheet 14, ll. 16ff.

His parents were usually given as Osiris [1] in combination with either Nephthys[2] or Isis, or Sakhmet,[6] but in some myths he was fathered by Re or Seth, [3] while as mother Hesat[4] and Bastet[5] are mentioned. With the Mnevis-bull and the Hesat-cow he formed a triad at Atfih.[6] In the 17th Upper Egyptian nome he was connected to the Bata-bull.[6] After the early period of the Old Kingdom, he was superseded by Osiris as god of the dead, being relegated to a supporting role as a god of the funeral cult and of the care of the dead. The black colour represented the colour of human corpses after they had undergone the embalming process.
In the Book of the Dead, he was depicted as presiding over the weighing of the heart of the deceased in the Hall of the Two Truths.
The principal sanctuary of Anubis was the necropolis in Memphis and in other cities. He was also known as Khenty-Imentiu (Khentamenti etc) - "Chief of the Westerners" - a reference to the Egyptian belief that the realm of the dead lay to the west in association with the setting sun, and to their custom of building cemeteries on the west bank of the Nile, a title also conferred upon Osiris from the late Old Kingdom onwards.
The Greeks equated him with Hermes (Hermanubis).